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Moderate mutation rate in the SARS coronavirus genome and its implications by Zhao, Zhongming, Li, Haipeng, Wu, Xiaozhuang, Zhong, Yixi, Zhang, Keqin, Zhang, Ya-Ping, Boerwinkle, Eric, Fu, Yun-Xin

“…The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused a severe global epidemic in 2003 which led to hundreds of deaths and many thousands of…”
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Global genetic variation at nine short tandem repeat loci and implications on forensic genetics by GUANGYUN SUN, MCGARVEY, Stephen T, BAYOUMI, Riad, MULLIGAN, Connie J, BARRANTES, Ramiro, RASKIN, Salmo, YIXI ZHONG, AKEY, Joshua, CHAKRABORTY, Ranajit, DEKA, Ranjan

“…We have studied genetic variation at nine autosomal short tandem repeat loci in 20 globally distributed human populations defined by geographic and ethnic…”
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Genetic admixture in three mexican mestizo populations based on D1S80 and HLA-DQA1 Loci by Cerda-Flores, Ricardo M., Villalobos-Torres, Maria C., Barrera-Saldaña, Hugo A., Cortés-Prieto, Lizette M., Barajas, Leticia O., Rivas, Fernando, Carracedo, Angel, Zhong, Yixi, Barton, Sara A., Chakraborty, Ranajit

“…This study compares genetic polymorphisms at the D1S80 and HLA‐DQA1 loci in three Mexican Mestizo populations from three large states (Nuevo León, Jalisco, and…”
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Nondetectability of restriction fragments and independence of DNA fragment sizes within and between Loci in RFLP typing of DNA by RANAJIT CHAKRABORTY, YIXI ZHONG, LI JIN, BUDOWLE, B

“…We provide experimental evidence showing that, during the restriction-enzyme digestion of DNA samples, some of the HaeIII-digested DNA fragments are small…”
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Patterns of Instability of Expanded CAG Repeats at the ERDA1 Locus in General Populations by Deka, Ranjan, Guangyun, Sun, Wiest, Jonathan, Smelser, Diane, Chunhua, Su, Zhong, Yixi, Chakraborty, Ranajit

“…A highly polymorphic CAG repeat locus, ERDA1, was recently described on human chromosome 17q21.3, with alleles as large as 50–90 repeats and without any…”
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Genetic variation at twentythree microsatellite loci in sixteen human populations by Deka, Ranjan, Shriver, Mark D., Mei Yu, Ling, Heidreich, Elisa Mueller, Jin, Li, Zhong, Yixi, Mcgarvey, Stephen T., Agarwal, Shyam Swarup, Bunker, Clareann H., Miki, Tetsuro, Hundrieser, Joachim, Yin, Shih-Jiun, Raskin, Salmo, Barrantes, Ramiro, Ferrell, Robert E., Chakraborty, Ranajit

“…We have analysed genetic variation at 23 microsatellite loci in a global sample of 16 ethnically and geographically diverse human populations. On the basis of…”
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The utility of short tandem repeat loci beyond human identification: Implications for development of new DNA typing systems by Chakraborty, Ranajit, Stivers, David N., Su, Birg, Zhong, Yixi, Budowle, Bruce

“…Since the first characterization of the population genetic properties of repeat polymorphisms, the number of short tandem repeat (STR) loci validated for…”
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Development of a Highly Polymorphic STR Marker for Identity Testing Purposes at the Human Androgen Receptor Gene (HUMARA) by Desmarais, D, Zhong, Y, Chakraborty, R, Perreault, C, Busque, L

“…We developed a non-isotopic method which improves the technical quality of the X-linked HUMARA locus typing process. The use of formamide and a low…”
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Rate and directionality of mutations and effects of allele size constraints at anonymous, gene-associated, and disease-causing trinucleotide loci by Deka, R, Guangyun, S, Smelser, D, Zhong, Y, Kimmel, M, Chakraborty, R

“…We studied the patterns of within- and between-population variation at 29 trinucleotide loci in a random sample of 200 healthy individuals from four diverse…”
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Distribution and evolution of CTG repeats at the myotonin protein kinase gene in human populations by Deka, R, Majumder, P P, Shriver, M D, Stivers, D N, Zhong, Y, Yu, L M, Barrantes, R, Yin, S J, Miki, T, Hundrieser, J, Bunker, C H, McGarvey, S T, Sakallah, S, Ferrell, R E, Chakraborty, R

“…We have analyzed the CTG repeat length and the neighboring Alu insertion/deletion (+/-) polymorphism in DNA samples from 16 ethnically and geographically…”
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Statistical power of an exact test of Hardy-Weinberg proportions of genotypic data at a multiallelic locus by Chakraborty, R, Zhong, Y

“…A computer algorithm for numerical evaluation of the statistical power of an exact test of Hardy-Weinberg genotypic proportions (HWP), developed here,…”
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Paternity evaluation in cases lacking a mother and nondetectable alleles by Chakraborty, R, Jin, L, Zhong, Y

“…In parentage testing the formulae for computing paternity index and exclusion probability generally ignores the presence of nondetectable alleles at the loci…”
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A comparative study of genetic variation at five VNTR loci in three ethnic groups of Houston, Texas by Sharma, B R, Thompson, M, Bolding, J R, Zhong, Y, Jin, L, Chakraborty, R

“…Following the technique of Southern blot restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) analysis, we generated a database of DNA profiles at five Variable…”
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On allele frequency computation from DNA typing data by Chakraborty, R, Jin, L, Zhong, Y, Srinivasan, M R, Budowle, B

“…Forensic applications of DNA typing data require the estimation of the frequencies of all observed alleles, which is currently done by a fixed set of groupings…”
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Estimation of mutation rates from parentage exclusion data: applications to STR and VNTR loci by Chakraborty, R, Stivers, D N, Zhong, Y

“…Nonpaternity is a common source of bias in estimating mutation rates when they are obtained from family data showing discordance of parental and children's…”
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